Translation Important legal notice

Translation and drafting aids in the European Union languages

The European Union has 23 official languages, and it has to publish its legislation in all of them. It also has to communicate with the authorities and the public in the Member States in their languages. The translators in the EU institutions who make this possible work behind the scenes, but theirs is a vital and complex task.

This page contains links to databases and guides to style and clear writing which you are free to use, as well as discussions of translation-related issues.

Details of the structure and organisation of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission, and information about employment opportunities, can be found on its homepage.

Freelance Aids

Translation and language aids for external translators working for the DG for Translation of the European Commission

Freelance work

Translation of legal texts

Links to other websites

Languages and Europe

Directorate-General for Translation

Directorate-General for Interpretation

Questions about Europe?

Language aids

Online dictionaries, glossaries, clear writing campaigns, style guides, etc. 

 Bulgarian  Czech Danish Dutch
English Estonian Greek Finnish
 French German Hungarian  Irish
 Italian Latvian Lithuanian  Maltese
Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak
Slovene Spanish Swedish  

 

Multilingual resources

EU Legislation
Eur-Lex
CC-Vista - Taiex - EU Legislation in the new languages

EU Terminology
IATE
Glossary of EU Terms
EUROVOC - Multilingual thesaurus
Acronyms & Abbreviations

Drafting Guides
Joint Practical Guide
Interinstitutional Style Guide

 

Language recognition

Special character sets

Do you want to type a word or name with special characters but don't know where to find the letters on your keyboard? 
We have found a website with all kinds of character sets from which you can copy&paste the special characters into your document:

Languages, countries and currencies

Further reading

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